Please post a picture or diagram of a “flapping hinge dampener”. Also, in case you don’t know, the 206 isn’t a fully articulated rotor head. Semi-rigid rotor heads don’t require dampening since they don’t lead-lag. The flap restraint, to which you refer, is a spring-loaded, centrifugally-activated mechanical stop to…

Please avail yourself to some rotorcraft texts. On a fully articulated rotor system, the dampeners are there to limit and dampen motions in the lead-lag hinge due to Corriolis effect. This is caused by the blade flapping which is caused, in turn, by advancing/retreating blade aerodynamics (i.e., disymmetry of lift).…

I dunno. GTS’s are damned rare. I wouldn’t have the heart to turn one of those into a “lump”.

Yup, retreating blade descends and lags.

It’s continuous once the aircraft crosses the sound barrier. Imagine a cone trailing the aircraft. As that cone hits the ground, boom!

Funny, I thought it was an air-cooled Night Rod.

Ah, California, and Santa Barbara County in particular. I love how they need an EIR at a place where there’s 15 gigatons of themornuclear destruction parked in silos. Screw the bird, we need the jobs!

This clown has a reservation waiting at SuperMax.

“We sank a truck!”

It’s a courtesy flag flown in port of call. It appears to be on the wrong yardarm, though.

Yeah, it’s not like they’d take over an embassy and hold folks hostage for 444 days. These are *rational* people.

Yeah, they already have two Kim portraits plastered on every living room wall in NK. With three, folks are going to start asking some obvious questions.

The vertical stabilizer/rudder has huge lever arm given the overall length of the fuselage. That’s why the 747SP had a *larger* vertical stab than the -200 since the overall length of the SP’s fuselage was shorter.

Wow. I’m now glad my 12 bucks went, at least in a small part, to this guy.

The most “Un-Harley” Harley you can get.

Isn’t the method of compression still the big secret to thermonukes? Ablation versus radiation pressure? My understanding of the need for surfboard foam was, being hydrocarbon based, it was transparent to the immense x-ray flux needed to compress the secondary.

Yeah, right. To get a decent thermonuke you need to have perfected the nuclear “primary” first. I doubt they’ve even got an implosion fission device working right yet. Probably a U-238 gun-type device. Anybody else have information?

Yeah, that’s why this looks like a Night Rod.

Thank God the aviation community doesn't subscribe to that credo.

Here in the U.S. we’re capable of building infrastructure quickly. Proof - 1994 Santa Monica Freeway collapse after the Northridge earthquake. Pete Wilson, our governor, suspended the government contracting requirements and implemented a bonus/penalty payment. Result - fixed in less than 3 months. It was an insane…